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‘While many seasoned walkers did the ten mile trek many others did the shorter 3 mile walk enjoying the scenery at their leisure.’

at your convenience, when it suits you, in your own time, in your own good time, when you can fit it in, without need for haste, without haste, unhurriedly, without hurry, when you get round to it, when you want to

A woman or man of independent means or whose time is free from obligations to others.

‘We are not, in this day and age a place for the polishing of young men of leisure into gentlemanly ways.’

‘Mr Tung is a wealthy gentleman of leisure with a very large townhouse.’

‘Unfortunately, the reality of gentry-class women's lives often failed to conform to the image of the lady of leisure.’

‘The drag queen in this film is no lady of leisure.’

‘This move, however, had only increased their resentment of her, as they saw it as an attempt to act the part of the charitable lady of leisure.’

‘But although that is now on hold, she has no plans of becoming a lady of leisure.’

‘They are men of leisure, going on a voyage down the Thames River from Kingston to Oxford.’

‘On the other hand, I think I'd be a really good lady of leisure.’

‘The rest of the time, players appear to be gentlemen of leisure.’

‘Yes, he was a busy man with his hardware business and now he's a busy man of leisure.’

leisure class

A social class that is independently wealthy or has much leisure.

‘Woodcraft offered a virile form of recreation that distanced the urbanite from a leisure class that hired guides for their wilderness trips or spent their vacations in effeminate mountain resorts.’

‘The country has developed more of a leisure class.’

‘Veblen's study of the leisure class, moreover, showed how the pecuniary values of the leisure class created a ‘capitalist hegemony,’ to use Edgell's term, by influencing the values of all other members of society.’

‘The French make up the leisure class, along with local elected officials (among them a number of Creoles descended from planters), merchants, and salaried workers.’

‘Mass-produced objects had a ‘sameness’ to them, and because they were mass-produced they were by definition ‘perceived as being common and it is this commonness that the leisure class objected to.’’

‘Certainly, the image casts him as a member of the leisure class who maintains ‘an air of kindly patronage’ toward his lower-class visitor.’

‘They became a new and crucial leisure class, the focus of every advertiser's lust, every merchant's greed.’

‘There is a thriving leisure class, which has given way to a class of well-off entertainers - dancers, acrobats, singers and other such performers in addition to the usual street variety.’

‘Inverting a familiar social Darwinist argument, Veblen contended that the leisure class retarded social progress by sheltering itself from the economic forces that encouraged adaption.’

‘He tends to portray high earners as bad guys, the unproductive leisure class.’

Origin

Middle English: from Old French leisir, based on Latin licere ‘be allowed’.